It`s years since I went to the Challenge Cup, Grand Final or any Super League ,Nations matches I have no interest whatsoever. There was a time we went to them every year and organised a bus full of people to take with us ,not now and what is more I don`t even miss it. I cannot even watch Super League on the TV now after a few mins I get bored,I do get marketing stuff from the RFL and I often let them know I will not buy tickets to watch something they don`t want my club to be part of.It won`t make no differance to them but it does make a differance to me and I can choose to spend my money how I want and it`s not going on propping Bradford up.

Not been for Years ........... Can't stand The RFL since the Shudersfield and GatesHull Fiasco.......

Its all about the control Rich, look at how W1g4n market and sell the ' Big One ' , I'd suggest that the local council would have enough families to fill the Skircoat , ditto the local hospitals, then schools and education personel, couple that with encouraging maximum away support and entice all the ' Bobs ' you can, pick out 4 games a year and market to death

As I said, not easy, hard work and a bit of cash , but it is the only way

Maybe not BUT why I won't support anything to do with SL is because think about it, on the one hand the RFL are saying we don't want you as you are not good enough for SL but on the other please, please, please come to our games we need all the fans we can get!
Stuff you fat boy.

Maybe not BUT why I won't support anything to do with SL is because think about it, on the one hand the RFL are saying we don't want you as you are not good enough for SL but on the other please, please, please come to our games we need all the fans we can get!
Stuff you fat boy.

'cos there's nobody else there for him to annoy.
He'd be like an Eagles fan rattling around in a stadium, oh, hang on a minute......

I went to the sports shop near Next yesterday and was appalled to see a full rack of RL shirts on offer!

The reason I was appalled is because the choice was Leeds, Castleford and BullS$$$. What a joke - how difficult is it to speak to these shops and give them a dozen shirts to sell?

I am not a marketing expert but come on people. How hard can it be?

Simple, we haven't got a dozen shirts to give them. Ask Malcolm in the club shop, notice he hasn't got any hair?
He has pulled it all out dealing with XBlades. He had one home shirt in the club shop to sell.

One day, when we are all dead and buried, some bright spark will convince all the Championship clubs to work together , sort out their own brand, manufacture their own merchandise and it will make the clubs millions

One day

I`m not really for giving away too many adult tickets either but I do believe that for certain matches we should give free childrens tickets away .Most people I know were introduced by a parent /grandparent or by meeting a player who spoke to them. I think they should get a couple of players plus volunteers out in the precinct a few Saturdays giving out free tickets to kids and saying they have to bring an adult .They could do a special package too as with all the will in the world £18 for an adult who is coming to watch rugby for the first time is quite expensive make them a one off just for a game where there will be not many away fans.
If a player talks to the child and tells them he`ll look out for them at a match the child thinks they are something special.That`s why I started to go to Thrum Hall and so did all my friends because we lived where all the players lived and saw them every day.My dad was from the North East and was a football player he`d never took me to the rugby we all just used to go together with someone elses parents.
Children want to be part of something sucsessful and I can`t help but think they missed out on a bit of an oportunity when we won the cup a couple of years back.They were invited on a visit to the Town Hall and came out on the balcony as it was going dark to show off the trophy to a sizeable crowd of Fax fans it was a wonderful spectacle.But would it not have created some interest in the town for our team if they had done this on a Saturday afternoon in an open top bus (available in Halifax)instead of an ordinary coach ?Toured the town and maybe stopped off at a Supermarket or two.Not sure wether it would be possible to close the road for the "balcony apearance " but the whole town would have seen them during the day not just the rugby supporters.
There is no easy answer to selling our team but we have to grab the oportunity when we can and we don`t seem to do this well at our club.I again looked around town just before the final last week and saw no mention that we were in a final no blue and white anywhere.If the Club can`t persuade shopkeepers to let them put something up how about asking the council if we can get into some of the umpteen empty shops they have and make a window display up.
There would be quite a few volunteers to help out with this and I hope no-one says "we tried it once it didn`t work" because it has to be done time and time again to make any kind of headway.

Just giving out free kids tickets doesnt work, you need to give much more, and to give more you need to have money to spend, so does Fax have a marketing budget set aside every year to spend on ' Marketing ' ?

That is the 1 st thing you need to sort out

Marketing is what is needed, but silverware to show around should also help.